Protecting Your Worksheets |
When distributing worksheets, you may wish to restrict user access to most regions. Rather than locking an area, you may opt instead to use worksheet protection. Mathcad provides three levels of worksheet protection. Note: Protected worksheets can only be saved in compressed XML format (XMCDZ).
With file-level protection, the worksheet can only be saved as zipped XMCDZ, Mathcad 2001i or higher, as RTF, as a Mathcad template (XMCTZ), or as HTML.
No other restrictions are placed on any regions.
In addition to the previous restrictions, existing regions cannot be changed. New regions can be created and protected regions can be copied.
In addition to the previous set of restrictions, protected regions cannot be edited or copied. No new regions can be created in the worksheet.
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To Protect Your Worksheet |
Choose Protect Worksheet from the Tools menu; to turn off Worksheet Protection, choose Unprotect Worksheet from the same menu. You also have the option to use a password.
You may need to save the worksheet in an acceptable format before the Protect Worksheet options will be visible on the menu.
To disable protection for a specific region when the rest of the worksheet is protected, right-click on the region, choose Properties from the menu, and deselect "Protect region from editing" on the Protect tab before protecting the entire worksheet.
Disabling protection for an area, when the rest of the worksheet is protected, can be set either before or after the area is collapsed. Right-click on an area boundary when expanded or right-click the collapsed area; then choose Properties from the menu and uncheck region protection on the Protect tab. Once you've enabled Worksheet Protection, areas cannot be expanded or collapsed.
Regions added while worksheet protection is enabled (content level only) cannot be flagged for protection until the worksheet is unprotected.
